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- Overview
- Learning Objectives
- Course Registration
- Schedule & Student Count
- Course Fees & Materials
- Logistics
- Cancellation & Refunds
Overview
The Heavy Equipment Rigging Specialist course is a 4 day – 32 hour program developed by the FEMA Instructors and subject matter experts for encompassing structural collapse training for assessing and mitigating all types of collapses in all types of buildings to facilitate rigging and crane operations. Students are exposed to theory, principle and relationships of how and why collapse events occur and how they can best be addressed for successful and safe search and rescue operations.
The training integrates elements of physics and engineering concepts and is heavily weighted with practical applications of heavy building construction, weight calculations and configurations and the stabilization and removal of heavy objects in a safe and efficient manner. The curriculum is for advanced lifting and moving enthusiasts, takes the basics of Structural Collapse Technician and applies them to multiple story collapse, confined spaces, truss construction and stabilizing heavy weigh buildings.
Course only open to currently credentialed Military, Law Enforcement and First Responders and Structural Collapse Technician

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Per RequestLearning Objectives
- Understand the importance of safe and sound practices in all phases of planning and rescue operations.
- Understand various tools and the operators influence on their operation.
- Improve utilization of and communication with heavy equipment contractors and operators
- Explain basic concepts, safety, failure mode, and uses of heavy equipment and wire rope
- rigging for hazard mitigation during US&R incidents;
- Learn to Safely and efficiently deploy mobile cranes and other heavy equipment during critical US&R operations
- Explain how demolition contractors and their equipment may be effectively used during US&R operations
- Identify the non-traditional uses of mobile cranes and other heavy equipment that might be employed during US&R operations
- Develop efficient teams that work together safely and effectively
- Identify common rigging terms
Course Registration
Schedule & Student Count
- COURSE LENGTH: 32 Hours
- PARTICIPANTS: 20 Student maximum
- VENUE: Guardian Centers
Course Fees & Materials
- PRICING: $2,500.00 per student
Logistics
- Guardian Centers Onsite Billeting | 600 Perry Parkway, Perry, GA | (478) 224-5700
- Holiday Inn | 1502 Sam Nunn Blvd. Perry, GA | (877) 786-9480
- Best Western | 205 Lect St. Perry, GA | (866) 460-7456
- Comfort Inn | 201 Lect Drive Perry GA | (855) 307-2224
- Hampton Inn | 100 Marketplace Drive Perry GA | (855) 901-0002
- Microtel Inn & Suites | 110 Fairview Drive Perry, GA | (478) 987-4004
Cancellation & Refunds
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